Growing as Makers How to Manage Cognitive Load as a Developer When you're juggling features, bugs, code reviews, and meetings, you're just as bottlenecked by time as you are by cognitive load.
Personal Optimization Upgrade Your Note-Taking Skills From The Classroom To The Office When you’re first starting your career, you might find that college skills just aren’t transferable. I've had to relearn note-taking.
Atomic Accelerator 6 Things I Learned in My First 6 Months in the Accelerator Program Learn how the Accelerator program emphasizes relationships and community, fostering growth beyond just technical skills.
The Software Life Here’s How Software Makers Can Stay in the Game Even While on the Bench One key learning I’ve come to realize while “on the bench” is how important it is to add value by staying true to our Atomic values.
The Software Life Here Are 3 Lessons I Learned in Sales That You Can Apply to Software Engineering Here's how the sales experience creates better software engineers. Learn why interpersonal skills, tenacity, and persuasion matter.
Culture The Art of the Nerd Snipe: Ask Questions People Want to Answer There's a subtle art to asking for help in a way that grabs people's interest and makes them get involved. And, it only takes a moment to do.
The Software Life Why Programmers Should Do Their Own Taxes While the complexity of tax law might seem daunting, programmers possess exactly the skills needed to navigate tax preparation software.
Growing as Makers What Are You Looking At? The Power of Awareness The Covid-19 pandemic taught me the power of awareness to change your understanding. I apply that lesson to custom software consulting.
Growing as Makers What Makes a Great Consultant? Hint: It’s Not Just Code Explore how trust and human connection, not just technical skill, define successful consulting engagements.
Growing as Makers People First: My Shift Toward More Meaningful Work Sometimes I wonder if a People Person belongs in tech. Turns out, I put the soft in software, and that's exactly the point.
Personal Optimization Trying to Land Your First Job In Tech Post-Grad? 3 Things Not to Do The time between graduating and landing your first tech job can be stressful and uncertain. Here's what NOT to do.
Development The Most Important Tool for Working with Legacy Code: Empathy When I'm scratching my head, trying to figure out what the author of some legacy code was thinking, I try to put some empathy into practice.
